22/ “Philip says he “looked ahead 10 to 20 years and saw ourselves older and possibly without family, with diminishing ability to travel, in a country where I didn’t see whites, let alone Jews, being a priority.”
32/ Israel’s education ministry: “Such integration may harm the cultural and family roots of the students and create a unification of cultures in a manner that would erase and blur the identity and the community from which they come.”
On learned helplessness and Zionist psychological torture.
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Genocide destroys far more than human lives. It aims to erase an entire people’s existence. Beyond mass killing, it dismantles families and communities, erases culture, language and religion and...
2/ severs ties to land and history. Survivors are left with deep psychological trauma, often passed down through generations, while political, economic and social structures are shattered.
3/ In addition to using Gaza as a lab for new weapons, Israel has pioneered psychological torture techniques, including dropping demoralizing leaflets from the air, broadcasting abusive messages through
On Cecil Rhodes, Herzl and #ZionismIsWhiteSurepmacy
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Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902) was a British imperialist, businessman and politician who played a central role in expanding British rule in southern Africa. He believed in the racial and cultural supremacy of
2/ the Anglo-Saxon world. Cecil Rhodes was an explicit white supremacist who saw British imperial expansion as a moral mission. He believed that Anglo-Saxons were destined to rule the world and that non-European peoples were inferior and
3/ should be subjugated for their own “benefit.”
Theodor Herzl directly approached Cecil Rhodes in 1902 to solicit support for the Zionist project of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Herzl wrote to Rhodes as if the Zionist project were part of the British colonial
Here’s a thread of anti-colonial thinkers from the Global South, Black revolutionaries, Indigenous folks who've called Zionism what it is: white supremacy cloaked in divine entitlement, serving Western power.
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2/ Malcolm X
View on Zionism: Called Zionism a form of white colonialism.
He also connected Zionism to the same white supremacist forces oppressing Black Americans and colonized peoples.
3/ Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
Leader in SNCC and the Black Panther Party, later Pan-Africanist.
View on Zionism: Viewed it as racist and settler-colonial.
Quote: “Zionism is white supremacy.”
He rejected alliances with Zionists and emphasized solidarity with Palestinians.
The aim of liberal Zionist propaganda at this stage is to salvage the Zionist project. To that end, prominent figures like former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have begun publicly denouncing Netanyahu and his government, accusing them of committing genocide.
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2/ This has sparked excitement in some circles, “Even Israeli leaders are calling it genocide!,” but this is not progress. On the contrary, by acknowledging that NOW it is genocide, specifically in reference to Operation Gideon’s Chariots, they achieve several strategic goals:
3/ (i) They exonerate the Zionist project as a whole, implying it wasn’t genocidal before October 7, or even until recently. Only now, under Netanyahu, has it supposedly crossed that line; (ii) They shift blame away from themselves, pinning guilt squarely on
Israel is carrying out a plan to destroy Palestinian society from within.
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Other than a tool to move the population southward as part of a brazen criminal displacement campaign, the starvation of Gaza has another insidious deliberate objective-
2/ socially engineered atomization of the people in Gaza, designed to create extreme deprivation, societal chaos and internal strife, particularly through food scarcity and lack of control and subsequently as a pretext for further genocide, expulsion, theft and domination.
3/ Renowned Primatologist Jane Goodall documented a prolonged conflict (1974–1978) between two chimpanzee groups, the Kasakela and the Kahama, in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. This “Gombe Chimpanzee War” saw the Kasakela community systematically attack and eliminate
Israeli society is cooked.
There is no way to sustain a functioning society long term while committing overt, explicit, gleeful genocide. We are seeing this on every level of interpersonal relationships.
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2/ Though these trends have always been a part of Zionism, liberal Zionism is what held it together - and the founders knew it. Now, with liberal Zionisms complete dissolution at the hands of Netanyahu, and the celebration of fascism and white supremacy, newarab.com/opinion/libera…
3/ no amount of back peddling, gaslighting or pink washing will do.
There is nothing but offense left- pushing forward, focusing on the present and a fascistic fantasy of manifest destiny in the future, rather than the past, which is indefensible.